Canon has announced a 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor with a mindboggling 410 million pixels, the world's highest pixel count. The newly developed 410-megapixel CMOS sensor has a 24,592 x 16,704-pixel resolution, the equivalent of 24K, or 198 times that of Full-HD and 12 times that of 8K. It enables cameras to capture a wide field of view and crop in while still obtaining high-quality images of the enlarged area without loss of resolution.
While traditional ultra-high-pixel sensors usually require medium format or even bigger components, this CMOS sensor packs all those megapixels into a chip the size of a standard frame of 35mm film. It can thus be used with a huge range of lenses designed for full-frame cameras, which should allow for the miniaturization of imaging equipment.
